sex research key players Flashcards
1
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love/sex manuals
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- ex karma sutra
- different ethnicities/cultures published books on pleasure, sexual wellbeing etc around 500BC onwards
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Karl Henry Ulrichs
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- 1825-1895
- one of the first people to publicly come out as gay
- pioneer of modern gay rights movement
- offered first theory on same sex attraction (inborn and natural)
- ‘uranism’ pamphlets (explaining same sex attraction)
- got in trouble w law
3
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urnings, urninds, and uranodionings
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- urnings: man-man
- urninds: woman- woman
- uranodionings: attracted to both
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Carl Westphal
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- 1833-1890
- published first case history of same sex attraction, calling it contrary to sexual feelings and unhealthy condition
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Henry Havelock Ellis
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- 1859-1939
- Studies in the psychology of sex (7 volumes, 1896-1928)
- Sexual inversion (same sex) was inborn and natural (seen in his travels in animals and other cultures)
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Magnus Hirschfeld
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- 1868-1935
- first formalized gay rights movement (Scientific humanitarian committee)
-published journal for sexology - coined term transvestism
- medical society for sexology
- institute for sexology
- first person to organize: international sexology conference
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Albert moll
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- theory of sexual response: 4 stages
- onset (he would talk to ppl about it/being intuned with desire)
- voluptuous sensation (bodily feelings of sexual arousal, tingel/ache)
- volumptuous acme (acme=top, orgasm/heightened sexual response)
- end of voluptuous sensation (resolution/after/ process of arousal feelings, transition from sexual to non sexual)
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Kinsey
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- 1894-1956
- Self report
- was a credible bio bug researcher
- started a ‘marriage’ class only couples could take, students loved but admin hated
- collected his own data informally then started interviewing formally and traveled to get more info
9
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what was taught in kineys class and how was it different from other sex ed courses
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- taught: erotic areas w/ pictures, pleasure, foreplay, sexual engagement, and masturbation
- how different: old classes focused mainly on hygiene and were split by gender
10
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info on kinseys interviews
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- collected sociodemograpohic background info on participants (used as a trick to warm them up)
- worded questions so its accepted
- 300 questiosn with potential of 200 follow ups
- 2 hours per interview
- info was collected in code that was memorized and not written down
- they collected over 10 000 histories of sexual behaviour
11
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Kinsey and sexual orientation
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- Kinsey rating scale of sexual orientation
- created first visualization of sexuality as a continua
- as he questioned ppl, he would mentally classify them on the scale
- also had option for asexuality/no sexual attraction
12
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Kinsey findings
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- Kinsey reports (Sexual behaviour in the human male 1948 and Sexual behaviour in the human female 1953)
- highlights: showed ppl were engaging sexually outside of marriage, showed same sex attraction is very present, masturbation techniques (aimed to educate on female pleasure)
13
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what kinsey was working on when he died
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- was trying to shift focus by joining gynos to probe vulvas/vaginas with permission to document pleasure
- shows pleasure is not just in penetration
14
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Masters and johnson
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- Masters (1915-2001) was an obgyn with a focus in menopause that shifted to sex research and hired johnson (1925-2013) as a research assistant
- used instruments to measure physiological changes and observed changes
- Published human sexual responses in 1966
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Issues with masters and johnsons study findings
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- limited sample
- mainly white, sexually open, middle to upper class, able bodied
- 382 women and 312 men
